I got every achievement, every upgrade sans the Grandmapocalypse ones, all of the Shadow Achievements, and 2 quintillion plus cookies in 25 minutes.
Why yes, I did cheat. I ran a Golden Cookie autoclicker and a Golden Cookie endless spawner. What’s funny, though, and the reason I mention this, is because I didn’t get the “Hacked Cookies Taste Awful” achievement until I entered a deliberate command. Apparently it only pops on certain commands.
Having run it legitimately and seeing no end after about a week, I just wanted it over with. Now I am finally free. Almost. I need to reclaim all the Grandma achievements, which take time thanks to research. THEN I’ll be free. I hope.
I give up on trying to understand the appeal of this thing. However, Airman why cant you just stop “playing”.
Just kill the application, and set yourself free!
I honestly don’t understand how people can let something run all night and all day on their computer, and think they are playing a game.
2 quintillion points? You are measuring points in the quintillion?
How about I just send you infinity points. Or 2 x infinity + 1 points! Woo woo!
You people are all crazy.
And did i read right, people are actually spending real money on buying things for this POS? This thing HAS to be some psych experiment on how gullible people truly are.
If you could turn your computer in, go to sleep while “playing” GTA V, and wake up to see you’ve racked up a bajillion points and found all the hidden tokens and killed all the gang members and po-pos, would you consider THAT playing GTA V?
Because I can’t leave something unfinished or it bugs me. This “game” pushes every OCD/ADHD trigger I have. Yes, I know it’s not a game, which is why I ran the cheats to extinguish the flame. It’s a slightly interactive math problem that requires a lot more effort to solve than it deserves.
If you go far enough it hits scientific notation. No joke.
This one, to the best of my knowledge, requires and/or accepts no money. But there are companies like Zynga where extracting money from people for clickfest games is actually their business model. There’s a sucker born every minute. And yet, do you know how hard it was for me to quit Mafia Wars without finishing everything? I haven’t looked in 3 years because if I do it will suck me back in, I’ll HAVE TO finish everything. This was the next worst thing, and at least I found a satisfactory way out this time.
Also, I don’t know if anybody has said this yet, but the approximate cost of buying every single upgrade in the game, and therefore the cost of completion (with the exception of the Shadow Achievements, which generally require cheating) is
I have all but two of the non-beta Shadow Achievements, without cheating. One of them, of course, is rewarded explicitly for cheating (in a very particular way). And Leprechaun just takes a really long time to get without cheating, but even at that, I’m about halfway there (but not going to finish it). All the others are quite doable: True Neverclick and Hardcore each take less than an hour (and could easily be done in the same run, in probably an hour and a half or so), and Speed Baking 1, 2, and 3 are virtually automatic, if you restart with enough Heavenly Chips.
Oh, plus the dungeon achievements, but those are still in beta, so don’t really count.
Hi, my name is Munch, and I’m a dirty, dirty cheater.
The goal of the game is to bake cookies right? And to do so by doing a lot of clicking? Well, then I’ve taken that directive to a slight extreme. I just reset my numbers, and I’ve accumulated 175,502 heavenly chips for a 351,004% CpS bonus. Without a frenzy, I’m at 59.7 trillion CpS, with a frenzy 418 trillion, with an elder frenzy I’m at 39.8 quadrillion CpS. It’s a whole lot of clicking, a whole lot of cheating, and a WHOLE lot of cookies. I want to get my CpS to the point where it needs scientific notation to display.
[Damn, I know I’m late to the party…too much on my mind…but here goes.]
“Played” (if that’s the right word) it for a few days.
First off, understand that this is essentially an idle game, where at least 90% of the time you’re sitting around waiting for the opportunity to do something. Sure, you’re going to have to do a bunch of clicking to get the machine running, but after a while there isn’t any point; the cookies you get from clicking are miniscule compared to the constant production you have going.
I’ve played an idle game on Kongregate before…Pingy the Peng Idle or something. Didn’t like it very much. And sad to say, this was also a letdown. Two huge problems stood out for me:
Items becoming exponentially more expensive for the same results. I understand that there has to be some mechanism to entice you to pick up the more expensive items, but here it shoots up way too fast, especially for the quantity you need to get achievements. Cost increases by the base value each time, that I could live with. As it is, paying much, much more and getting much, much less is a huge turn-off.
Dumb, stupid, idiotic, moronic, addle-brained LUCK. Hate it. And sadly, that’s exactly what you get with the golden cookies, which pop up completely at random and vanish after a time (so you can’t even idle properly without missing out). Worse, there are two types, the mass production one which vastly increases your output by something like 77 seconds, which is the one you really want, and the one which only gives you a small amount of cookies. So within the golden cookie itself is an element of blind luck! I’ve seen a lot of games on Kongregate (including the aformentioned Pingy) which could have been great, and the programmers had to cram in great, steaming, heaping loads of blind luck.
Oh, and if you’re going for 100% completion, keep in mind that one of the requirements is 100 antimatter condensors, each of which garners 1 million cookies per second. The first one costs 4 billion, the second around 4.5 billion, and it just shoots into the stratosphere from there. And then there are the helper items which increase in cost by a factor of ten: the first four flat 5% increase cookies cost you 100 million, the next four cost 1 billion (for the same increase, of course), etc. So even if you are getting literally a billion every second, by that time you’ve reached a point where you need 10 trillion, and when you’re garnering 2 billion, you need 20 trillion, or 600 trillion, or 3 quadrillion…there’s no end to this, a constant arms race where you are never allowed to be happy or satisfied.
I dunno, a game that demands that you have way too much time on your hands is iffy to me.
(P.S. By far the funniest thing I found was how the entire universe turns into cookie dough at the molecular level when production-wise you’re maybe 0.1% of the way toward 100% completion.)
Long before you get to the 100% completion point, you get to a point where the “problems” you mention no longer hold. The good result from a golden cookie is not the faster production for a minute, or the pile of cookies all at once… The good result from a golden cookie is both of those at the same time. Which actually happens fairly regularly, once you have the appropriate upgrades.
You’ve also missed out on one of the “subtleties” of the game. And yes, I realize that it’s not a subtle game. Heavenly chips: you get these for resetting with lots of cookies baked. They’re the secret to the upper achievement tiers, because they’re basically multipliers on everything. After you’ve done the reset a couple of times, you can get to billions of cookies/second in a few minutes. It’s actually faster to restart after your first trillion cookies or so (“baked this game”, you don’t have to actually have them in the bank), and every tier or half-tier after that (1 trillion, 500 trillion, 1 quadrillion, 500 quadrillion, etc.) and you’ll rocket to all the achievements/updates in a few days.
Or go the complete idler route and just cheat. You can copy a script from the Cookie Clicker Wiki that’ll click the golden cookies for you if you don’t even want to pay that much attention.
I’m not claiming this is going on the “all-time favorites” list, but it has more strategy to it than it first appears, brute force is exactly the worst-case way to play (results-wise), and it’s an interesting background diversion for a week or so.
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